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Given the way that LibreOffice has given them an epic beating are you surprised?

• benbristow 10y ago
  Wasn't really their fault. The project was abandoned way before and they just got dumped with it.
  • bronson 10y ago
    Sure it was. If the Apache foundation didn't want the responsibility then they should have said "no."
    • jimjag 10y ago
      Their were real solid reasons behind accepting the donation... even though most did not pan out, just the relicensing ALONE was a major Good Thing for the OpenOffice ecosystem. This allowed for key and provable IP provenance, something that was lacking in LibreOffice, and known/trackable licensing. Even so, bemoaning the ASF for even trying seems very disingenuous and somewhat ignorant of the facts.
    • mindcrime 10y ago
      The ASF doesn't take "responsibility" for projects in that sense. The individual communities do. The ASF exists mainly to provide legal/infrastructure support and to promote a certain approach - "The Apache Way". For the ASF to accept OpenOffice as a project was absolutely The Right Thing to do, and the world is a better place for it, even if LibreOffice is more popular right now.